The IRS is NOT investigating Gov. Nikki Haley (R, SC).

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  March 31st at 01:26 AM  | 

You may remember that a few days ago a minor South Carolinian political blog tossed out the very serious allegation that South Carolina governor Nikki Haley was about to be indicted by the Justice Department for alleged tax fraud involving her parents’ temple*.  The keyword?  “Imminent.”  Well, it turns out that the IRS is not actually investigating either the Governor or the temple (H/T @RBPundit) | Read More »

Thoughts on the SC primary.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  January 22nd at 11:00 AM  | 

As mentioned earlier, I was kind of taking last night off, so this will be a little scatter-shot.  Anyway: Heh.  Called it.  Not that getting the order was all that hard, or even unsurprising; also note that I didn’t predict the percentages.  By the way:  the end results (Gingrich 40%, Romney 28%, Santorum 17%, Paul 13%) were pretty close to what PPP predicted (Gingrich 37%, | Read More »

Andre Bauer’s unfortunate endorsement of Newt Gingrich. [UPDATE]

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  November 28th at 05:00 PM  | 

[Please note the edit below: the implication in the CNN article was that Bauer's endorsement of Gingrich was welcomed by the campaign, but there's still wiggle room for Team Newt. I've emailed the Gingrich campaign to confirm. - Moe Lane] Team Newt announced today that they [CNN reported today that the Gingrich campaign] had picked up the endorsement of Andre Bauer, who is: a former | Read More »

RS Gathering: Tim Scott (R, SC-01).

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  August 13th at 10:00 PM  | 

Tim Scott was elected last year on a general reform slate in South Carolina: he was one of the candidates that we took an interest in, so it was great that he got to speak with our readers Friday night.  Afterward, we spoke with Tim briefly:   Sound was a little off at first: we had some motivated listeners Friday night.

NYT uses bad guesser Jack Bass to attack Nikki Haley.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  July 2nd at 10:10 PM  | 

I will admit that the New York Times largely did not attack South Carolina governor Nikki Haley (R) all that harshly in this article; in fact, they said some things that were actually complimentary (given that the governor is openly going after entrenched Republican interests in SC, that’s probably not a surprise).  But they couldn’t quite resist playing silly games by getting local liberal political | Read More »

RedState Interview: Gov. Nikki Haley (R, SC).

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  April 12th at 08:00 PM  | 

We talked this afternoon on South Carolina’s Spending Accountability Act (which was formally signed into law today).  To refresh people’s memories: Governor Haley had campaigned in part on a platform of transparency, with a specific focus on the South Carolinian legislature’s ability to vote on funding issues without their votes actually going on the record. The Governor has long been a proponent of reversing this, | Read More »

Nikki Haley’s Inaugural Speech.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  January 12th at 04:00 PM  | 

Nikki Haley was sworn in today as South Carolina governor, and of all the annoyances that the Left has been trying to inflict upon us for the last few days over their petulant inability to dictate what can and cannot be said, this one grates most: they made me forget that briefly. We at RedState have been waiting for this moment for quite some time, | Read More »

What is the sound of $2.5M flushing?

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  October 7th at 12:30 PM  | 

…this. South Carolina Democratic candidate Rob Miller has apparently adopted Republicans’ “Fire Pelosi” mantra. According to a report by The Associated Press, Miller — who is hoping to oust Rep. Joe Wilson (R) in the South Carolina 2nd district race — said Wednesday that he would not vote to keep Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) as Speaker in the 112th Congress. Via, of all things, @markos, | Read More »

RedState Gathering: Nikki Haley.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  September 18th at 08:35 PM  | 

These will be filtering out over the next couple of days: the bulk of them may not even be put up until after I can get back home. In the meantime, here’s our quick talk with SC GOV nominee Nikki Haley. Nikki’s site, of course, is here.

John Spratt (D, SC-05) and his American Taliban.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  September 3rd at 10:00 AM  | 

It sounds like that book will get at least one South Carolinian purchaser: Spratt’s campaign manager Wayne Wingate, who is completely behind the idea that Osama bin Laden would receive widespread support from Republicans in SC-05.  An opinion that Spratt apparently shares, given that he didn’t immediately turn on Wingate and lay him out on the ground for saying filthy trash like that about Spratt’s | Read More »

DoJ: HIV transmission a *civil right*?

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  August 9th at 01:30 PM  | 

(Via Instapundit) This is a joke, right? Surely not even this administration is going to let people die of AIDS – even if they’re convicts – by going after humane correctional policies designed to keep uninfected convicts from being infected while still providing the infected treatment and counseling. Even if it does mean removing terminally ill, infectious convicts from the general prison population. That’s just | Read More »

Nikki Haley (R CAND, SC-GOV): T-1 and counting.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  June 21st at 12:00 PM  | 

The runoff elections are tomorrow, so if you like reform and live in South Carolina, get thee hence to the polls. Nikki feels good about the election, but this is no time to stop. Nikki’s site is here. Crossposted to Moe Lane.

State of the Race: Tim Scott (R CAND, SC-01).

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  June 13th at 03:41 PM  | 

Tim is the front-runner in the GOP primary runoff for SC-01, and he took the time to talk with us about the state of the race and why he’s running. Tim’s site is here: he’s a state representative and former Charleston County official.  The runoff is June 22nd.  There’s been a good deal of interest among RedState’s readers about this race thus far, and I | Read More »

Alvin Greene (D CAND, SC-SEN) up on felony charge.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  June 9th at 03:00 PM  | 

You know, South Carolinian political shenanigans are ever so much more fun when they’re not aimed at anybody on your side: South Carolina’s surprise Democratic nominee to challenge U.S. Sen. Jim DeMint is facing a pending felony charge. Court records show 32-year-old Alvin Greene was arrested in November and charged with showing obscene Internet photos to a University of South Carolina student. The felony charge | Read More »

Lots of Primaries today.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  June 8th at 08:23 AM  | 

According to RCP, we’ve got primaries in California, Iowa, Maine, Montana, Nevada, New Jersey, North Dakota, South Carolina, South Dakota, and Virginia.  The news has been dominated by California’s, Nevada’s, and of course South Carolina’s – but they’re all important, so if you’re a voter in that state, hie yourselves and any reliable Republican voters within reach to a polling station.  You can let the | Read More »

PPP: SC-GOV Haley/Barrett 43/23.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  June 6th at 07:34 PM  | 

Eight points away from making a runoff unnecessary. Nikki Haley hasn’t suffered any damage whatsoever after accusations of multiple extramarital affairs and is headed for an easy first place finish in Tuesday’s Republican primary for Governor of South Carolina. Haley has a 20 point lead, getting 43% of the vote. Gresham Barrett looks like the favorite for the second runoff spot. He’s at 23%, followed | Read More »

Did you think that anti-reform in South Carolina has any limits?

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  June 5th at 06:47 PM  | 

If you did, let me break it to you:  no, it doesn’t. The video (via Palmetto State Politics) is here: flip ahead to 5:53, where Lt. Governor candidate Larry Richter casually calls into question the combat service of Lt. Governor candidate Bill Connor. Repeatedly.  With a smirking sneer and a greasy awareness that he won’t get decked for it.  Some points to address there: Bill | Read More »

So, if you’ve been watching the Nikki Haley smear attempts…

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  June 4th at 07:42 AM  | 

…and you are absolutely sick and tired of the way that self-appointed ‘elites’ will stop at nothing in order to keep secure their place at the twin troughs of power and money; if you are appalled that in 2010 – 2010 – a politician from any party would think that his petty privileges are worth smearing the public reputation of not only his constituents, but | Read More »

Nikki Haley guts Andre Bauer on live television.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  June 2nd at 11:47 PM  | 

Get yourself a glass of something nice, first. This is from a candidate forum from earlier in the evening, where Nikki Haley redresses one week’s worth of filthy innuendos in roughly five minutes, at the expense of Lt. Gov Andre Bauer. You should watch the entire thing… See also Hot Air and Ace of Spades. [And here's some useful AmSpec background.] [And check out the | Read More »

Hi, Larry Marchant! [UPDATED]

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  June 2nd at 03:52 PM  | 

[UPDATE] Prove it, Larry. And no looking at Willy Folks’ test paper, either. Bye, Larry Marchant! [South Carolinian] Republican gubernatorial hopeful Andre Bauer said today he has asked for and received the resignation of a political consultant for “inappropriate conduct” but would say little more. Lt. Gov. Bauer announced that adviser Larry Marchant gave him his resignation at noon today. (Via CCP Blog) Funny how | Read More »